Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre

Mumbai November 26 2008. What began as a typical day in a bustling cosmopolitan city turned into a horror-filled 60 hours of orchestrated chaos when terrorists infiltrated the city and rampaged through the train station cafes a Jewish center and two of India's most famous five star hotels. As police struggled to coordinate a response and journalists clamored to cover the story from the streets victims trapped inside the hotels began making contact with the outside world using cell phones text messages and Twitter. Their urgent and heart-wrenching messages begged for information and painted a gruesome picture of indiscriminate killing unfettered brutality and mass confusion. But the victims weren't the only ones communicating with the outside world. The terrorist leaders in Pakistan were watching the coverage of the attacks on the news and relaying crucial information about the whereabouts of the victims back to their operatives on the ground.

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Mumbai November 26 2008. What began as a typical day in a bustling cosmopolitan city turned into a horror-filled 60 hours of orchestrated chaos when terrorists infiltrated the city and rampaged through the train station cafes a Jewish center and two of India's most famous five star hotels. As police struggled to coordinate a response and journalists clamored to cover the story from the streets victims trapped inside the hotels began making contact with the outside world using cell phones text messages and Twitter. Their urgent and heart-wrenching messages begged for information and painted a gruesome picture of indiscriminate killing unfettered brutality and mass confusion. But the victims weren't the only ones communicating with the outside world. The terrorist leaders in Pakistan were watching the coverage of the attacks on the news and relaying crucial information about the whereabouts of the victims back to their operatives on the ground.